Lend your voice to a continuing discussion that is helping to shape Africa's future. The inspiring contributions of our speakers are the key component behind eLearning Africa’s position as the most relevant networking event for practitioners and professionals working in ICT, education and training on the Continent. Whether you’re using a mobile app to engage young people with citizenship programmes, implementing state of the art technology to bring rural communities onto the grid and online, researching the impact of tablets in vocational learning, coordinating a local iHub to encourage home-grown innovation or lobbying government to prioritise ICT in national education policy, the eLearning Africa Conference audience wants to hear about it. they are are looking for the stories, experiences, research, thinking and expertise that make up the picture of ICT for development, education and training in Africa today, under the overall theme of Opening Frontiers to the Future.
Jobs and Announcements
What does post-westernness look like? What does it mean to be a cultural practitioner working outside the current imperial centres? What happens when water becomes more expensive than oil? How will south-south co-operation change things? What colour is the future? This call is for written submissions to “The State”, a media space for written and audiovisual communications, critical texts, interrogative narratives, images, manifestos and conversations. Send pitches or submissions of new work or pieces in English that have not yet been published in English, along with a brief bio, to submit@thestate.ae, by January 15th, 2014. Commissioned pieces will receive an honorarium.
Partners In Health is seeking an Executive Director. They are looking for a strong leader who can develop the PIH platform of care in the district where we provide direct service, create innovative approaches that address burdens of disease and gaps in service delivery, partner with national and local Ministry officials, and build the programs into models of system-level global health delivery. For more information, please contact Jennifer Fitzpatrick.
Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Masters program inform that for a number of KIT courses there are scholarships available from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP). The courses are: Master in Public Health, Master in Public Health, track in Sexual and Reproductive Health; Master in Public Health, track in HIV and AIDS and E-learning short course: Health Systems Strengthening and HIV. Applicants must apply at KIT for admission to the course. Apply for the NFP Scholarship separately at Nuffic: Go for details on the scholarship and list of NFP countries to: www.nuffic.nl/nfp Application deadline: 4th of February 2014.
The Zimbabwe Social Forum is a space dedicated to those struggling against, and directly challenging corporate fascism, neo-liberalism and market-led globalization. The Event will be held at the Raylton Sports Club in Harare under the theme “Our Resources, our Future!!!” Reclaiming the Social Movements Agenda for Social and Economic Justice. Participating Thematic Clusters are as follows: Gender and Women’s Rights; Debt and Trade; Students and Youths; Social Service Delivery; Labour; Media; Democracy and Rights; Natural Resources Governance; Health; Disability; Land, Environment and Climate Justice; Art s and Culture. Send enquiries to the email below.
This public lecture on ‘The Power of Advocacy’ will be presented by Mr Stephen Lewis, who will draw on his extensive international experience to illustrate the power of advocacy in the fight for social justice, reproductive rights, global health and gender equality. He is the co-founder and co-director of AIDS-Free World (www.aidsfreeworld.org), which is an international advocacy organisation that works to promote more urgent and more effective global responses to HIV/AIDS.
The Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is hosting an international conference to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa on 8 - 9 December 2013. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: Exploring possibilities for promoting women’s sexual and reproductive rights. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (also called the ‘Maputo Protocol’) was adopted in 2003 and entered into force in 2005. It has now been ratified by two-thirds of AU member states. One of the most important provisions of the Protocol is article 14, dealing with the health and reproductive rights of women. The conference will reflect on these and other innovative aspects of the Protocol.
On 13 and 14 December 2013, the Government of Senegal will host the “Dakar Financing Summit” on Africa’s infrastructure. African Heads of State and Government, influential business leaders and financiers will meet to provide concrete outcomes to accelerate financial investments for priority regional infrastructure projects on the continent. The Summit is a rallying call for the public and private sectors to partner towards infrastructure development in Africa. The Dakar Financing Summit is organized by the NEPAD Agency and African Union Commission, in collaboration with the African Development Bank (ADB) and UNECA. To register go to the website given.
LSHTM and Oxfam are inviting proposals for conference papers on the role of the for-profit private sector in delivering Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in low and middle income countries. The conference will take place at the LSHTM in London, UK on 4 April 2014. The conference will bring together academics, policy makers and civil society to explore evidence on the role and contribution of the for-profit private sector in scaling up access to achieve UHC. The organisers are seeking papers that demonstrate promising and innovative examples of for-profit private sector health care delivery in low- and middle-income countries that have made a significant and positive contribution to closing the health care gap and advancing UHC. Papers exploring examples from high-income countries will also be considered. Papers can have a country or regional (e.g. Africa/ Asia/ Europe/ Caucasus/ Latin America) focus and should pay particular attention to how for-profit providers expand access to quality and effective services for under-served populations as well as the challenges they face in doing so. Papers will also be considered that explore the specific role of for-profit providers within country wide successful advances towards UHC. Abstracts should be submitted as email attachments to deliveringuhc@oxfam.org.uk in English. All conference proceedings will be conducted in English.
The International Training Centre of the International Labour
Organization (ILO) is offering a distance learning course on OSH delivered through an internet based platform. The proposed programme will incorporate the international ILO experience on OSH and the ITC-ILO’s international training experience applied to the methodology. This programme is addressed to participants of both developing and developed countries, who will thus have an opportunity to share their different experiences. People interested in participating should complete and submit the application form available on the website http://socialprotection.itcilo.org/forms/A977128/ not later than 20 January 2014. Applications should be accompanied by a nomination letter from the sponsoring institution indicating how the participant will be financed.